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Drug-Resistant TB Draws
Global Health Response

By

Betsy McKay and

Marilyn Chase

Updated Sept. 9, 2006 11:59 p.m. ET

International health officials agreed to implement urgent measures to stem the world's largest outbreak to date of a super-resistant strain of tuberculosis that has already killed dozens of AIDS patients in South Africa.

At a two-day meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, that ended Friday, officials from the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the South African Medical Research Council...